Ink Stain

I'm a pen person. I love, Love, LOVE pens! Here in my office good pens aren't that readily available and if you have a good pen you better keep it under lock and key! I came across a pen that had been left at the copy machine one day and I fell in love! The ink just flowed from it with ease. With each stroke of a letter it was if the pen knew exactly what you wanted to say and would move on its own. Okay, I'm being a dramatic, but you are getting my point; right?

So, no one claimed this pen for days so I finally took it as my own. I wrote with this pen every day and loved every minute of it. I wrote on sticky notes, a calendar, I scribbled when I was on the phone and I just made it a point to use this pen as much as possible every single day. Until... last Thursday!

I picked up my pen and started doodling while on a phone call and then moved my attention to something else. I picked the pen up and wrote myself a note and then slid my hand across my desk. And that is when I noticed it...the pen had busted! There was ink EVERYWHERE! I had ink on my hands, my keyboard, my desk, my arm, papers...do you get the point? It was everywhere! I became so aggravated that I just chucked this pen in the garbage and began the task of trying to clean up. As I fussed under my breath I scrubbed and scrubbed trying to remove all this ink.

As I sat down this morning at my desk I couldn't help but snicker at the ink stains that still remain on my keyboard and desk. It doesn't matter how hard I scrubbed I just couldn't remove all of the ink. As I sat and looked I started thinking (or as my Daddy would say...muttering) and I started comparing these ink stains to sin. I thought about sin in my life, in my past and in my future. I thought about how hard I had worked to scrub this ink off my desk but yet it still remained. I thought about how sin affects my life and those around me. Then I started thinking about how Jesus' blood washes my sin white as snow! How I am a wretched ole sole who messes up day in and day out, but I have a Savior!! One who holds His hand out and pulls me out of the ink that I often find myself smearing everywhere. He pours His blood over the top of my head and as it flows over my forehead, down my face, over my chin, and then finishes down my body I no longer have blotches of stains all over me, but instead I am pure...I am restored!

"But if we are living in the light, as God is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin." 1 John 1:7 (NLT). Do you have ink all over you today? Are you in need of some restoration?